there is nothing stopping you from believing in god apart from yourself
Do you realise how utterly balmy that statement is?
Are you suggesting I should try and make myself believe? Go and get brain washed maybe? Is that what you prescribe?
to me your are very confused. it looks like you do beleive in an afterlife and a god that controls everything but you dont know which faith to follow
I'm afraid to me it looks like
you're confused - Have I not been clearly expressed my thoughts, and logical steps into my conclusion a God does not exist?
You don't address these logical issues, instead suggesting 'nothing to see here' and prescribe 'blind faith' as the best course? And I'm confused?
Now, the reason I keep mentioning a couple of obvious issues, are they are corner stones of many religions, yet at the slightest touch crumble.
I'll address them again, so you can ignore them, and not attempt to address them again
Chance of believing
Three times now for example I've mentioned that most likely I suspect your children are more likely to believe in a God than mine. You've not addressed this point, but I suspect being religious is often synonymous with overlooking the obvious
If you agree or disagree, there's no denying that where children are born (time, place, culture, family) plays a huge part in if they end up believing in a God. As such, the system seems rather unfair. Born at no.30 Long Street, very likely to believe. But born and no.45 Long Steet, not so likely.
So I bring this point to the table because many religions (Islam for example) seem quite black and white about this matter. Believe=Heaven, Don't believe=Hell.
How do you rationalise God creating system that is so random and/or unfair?
God Hiding
Why is God hiding? What's the point? Why not make it obvious he exists? What purpose does the skull-duggery serve?
Worse still, why pull the best disappearing act ever? There is not the slightest proof God exists, anywhere?
And not only does he hide his tracks, he goes to great lengths to suggest he doesn't exist. Why create the universe so utterly huge, when the only place of concern is a 5km thick band of atmosphere around this one tiny planet?
Utter Human Nonsense
Why would a God who can create a billion billion galaxies, each with billions of stars etc etc... Be the slightest bit interested in nonsense like virgins in heaven when you die. Why would he be the slightest bit interest in sexual desires of mamals? What purpose would frolicking with virgins or the like serve in heaven.
Sounds like typical contrived/invented human nuances. No different to inventing a God in the first place to explain things, and generally make yourself feel better and more important.
Chance of a God
Simply, what's more likely? A bunch of random matter popping out of no where? Or a super being who happens to be super religious and bothered about creating some ultimate testing ground to send people to Hell or Heaven (
to collect their gangs of virgins) for no other purpose than to take the (unfair) test?
Feel free to ignore the logical points above, and once again suggest
I'm confused
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